I've been playing around with a crazy idea in my head since Roses in Springtime: what if the guide was actually posted on the website? Blame it on the flurry of posts explaning how things work in UF.

Then I realized that would be (a) another task to take our authors away from what we really want them to do: write, and (b) unnecessary.

Here's my proposal:

Create post that acts as a index to the Guide related items posted on the website. The index could read:

CFMF - Blockades {link to post on blockades}

CFMF - Convoy {link to post on convoys}

CFMF - Fleet Engagement {this should be}

CFMF - Rubber Duck {fairly obvious}

Daggerdisc {link to technical readout page}

Hoffman {link to Kris' original post on this}

Zeta Cygni - Pseudocontient {link to the Forum post where Gryphon explains that it's flat, and just hangs in space}

And so on. We'd only link to posts done by the Authors, and the writing would be canonical...until the Authors decided otherwise. This way new people, nit-pickers, and the authors, could easily refer back to the canon. Afterall, if we have a guide, shouldn't it be accessible, even after it's been archived?

Oh, and the post could not be commented on. Can you lock a form, but still edit your post?

For the authors' sanity, the post would be maintained by a responsible fan (yeah, I'll volunteer) who can will update the post as frequently as necessary with the appropriate links, index names. If it doesn't work out, then the management can shut it down.

I now open the floor to comments.

t.

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>I've been playing around with a crazy idea in my head since Roses
>in Springtime: what if the guide was actually posted on the
>website? Blame it on the flurry of posts explaning how things work in
>UF.

I've toyed with a variation on this notion off and on for the past few weeks - not as part of the Forum, but as an actual webpage (or two, one for the UF Hitchhiker's Guide-format posts and one for the Babylon Project Galactic Database ones) under the FI section. The main obstacles have been the fact that I've been quite busy with Springtime, Hunted Rose, and now Reflections in Transition, and the fact that Truss hasn't been available much for graphics twiddling, what with the live game he helped run last week and inventing new cards for Knightmare Chess and his persistent state of sleep debt and upgrading his computers and his hair dye and that pesky girlfriend of his and whatnot. :)

(I think she lurks on these boards. I'll probably get scowled at for that last part. :)

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LAST EDITED ON Nov-15-01 AT 03:33 PM (EST)

>I've toyed with a variation on this notion off and on for the past few
>weeks - not as part of the Forum, but as an actual webpage (or two,
>one for the UF Hitchhiker's Guide-format posts and one for the
>Babylon Project Galactic Database ones) under the FI
>section. The main obstacles have been the fact that I've been quite
>busy with Springtime, Hunted Rose, and now
>Reflections in Transition, and the fact that Truss hasn't been
>available much for graphics twiddling, what with the live game he
>helped run last week and inventing new cards for Knightmare
>Chess and his persistent state of sleep debt and upgrading his
>computers and his hair dye and that pesky girlfriend of his and
>whatnot. :)

I'LL DO IT! I've twiddled with some web scripts on my site that approximates an online guide. Here's a link, it's The Hacker's Guide to the Internet -- just click on "Look Out!!". I'd be happy to collect the posts and format them into a separate guide for you guys. I've got a load of sorting and searching scripts to write, but the basic functions work. I'd be more than honored to do it for Eyrie. *shug* Or, you know... whatever. *cough*

Static-Pulse
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>I'LL DO IT!

Er, thank you, no... we'll get around to it, one of these days. :)

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

>Er, thank you, no... we'll get around to it, one of these days. :)

Oh, well. Can't blame a guy for screaming at the top of his lungs, waving both hands, and making an arse of himself. :)

Static-Pulse
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